The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to KeatsJohn Wain Oxford University Press, 1986 - 511 pages |
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... youth ( Crowned with fresh blooms , and ever - springing shade ) Turn , hither turn thy step , O thou , whose powerful voice , More sweet than softest touch of Doric reed , Or Lydian flute , can soothe the madding winds , And through ...
... youth ( Crowned with fresh blooms , and ever - springing shade ) Turn , hither turn thy step , O thou , whose powerful voice , More sweet than softest touch of Doric reed , Or Lydian flute , can soothe the madding winds , And through ...
Page 289
... Youth , Thy subtle speculations , toils abstruse Among the Schoolmen , and platonic forms Of wild ideal pageantry , shap'd out From things well - match'd , or ill , and words for things , The self - created sustenance of a mind Debarr'd ...
... Youth , Thy subtle speculations , toils abstruse Among the Schoolmen , and platonic forms Of wild ideal pageantry , shap'd out From things well - match'd , or ill , and words for things , The self - created sustenance of a mind Debarr'd ...
Page 447
... youth , With dew all turned to tears ; odour , to sighing ruth . XVII Thy spirit's sister , the lorn nightingale Mourns not her mate with such melodious pain ; Not so the eagle , who like thee could scale Heaven , and could nourish in ...
... youth , With dew all turned to tears ; odour , to sighing ruth . XVII Thy spirit's sister , the lorn nightingale Mourns not her mate with such melodious pain ; Not so the eagle , who like thee could scale Heaven , and could nourish in ...
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CHARLES SACKVILLE EARL Of dorset 16381706 | 1 |
ANNE COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA ?16601720 | 10 |
WILLIAM CONGREVE 16701729 | 19 |
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